AO3: show understanding of the relationships between the text and the contexts in which it was written.

Common trap

The Sign of Four: confusing context vs biography: Keep context vs biography clear. Make a claim, use brief textual evidence, analyse the writer's method and explain how it shapes meaning, context, theme, character or comparison. Text-specific focus: The Sign of Four is not interchangeable with the other 8702 texts. For this Shakespeare response, anchor the paragraph in detection and empire, then use brief textual evidence to explain how the writer develops justice. A useful The Sign of Four answer can contrast reason with mystery, because that gives the analysis a text-specific line of argument instead of a reusable AO paragraph. Method work should notice how language, form or structure frames narrative perspective. Context should be used only when it clarifies interpretation, reader response or audience response. When comparison is relevant, compare both texts or poems directly: whereas one detail may suggest detection, another may reveal empire or justice. Keep the vocabulary exact: character, speaker, narrator, writer, poet and playwright are not the same role, and the evidence must be explained after it is selected.